Games like Hard to be a King
If Hard to be a King is your kind of game, the closest matches are Fallen Angel: Hell Survival, Orebound and Alaska Gold Fever — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Hard to be a King: Hard to be a King ( Realm Guardian ) is a voxel strategy game. You will play a role in a fantasy world and become a lord, rule the land, and protect your people. Keep your people stay away from starving, build a stronghold to resist the dead army.
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Steam players who put hours into Hard to be a King also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Fallen Angel: Hell Survival
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Top pick for Hard to be a King fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hard to be a King.
Fallen Angel: Hell Survival is a first-person open-world survival craft game set in a brutal, mythic Hell. Scavenge, fight, build, and master devilish magic as Hesicasial — a fallen angel cast into the underworld. Will you conquer Hell, or be consumed by it?
Orebound
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Second-strongest match for Hard to be a King fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hard to be a King.
Orebound is a dwarven themed factory automation game. Play alone or with friends as you build, mine, craft and explore a voxel generated world! Build your fortress, expand your factory, fight off creatures who dwell beneath the mountains and embark on a journey of greatness.
Alaska Gold Fever
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Third-strongest match for Hard to be a King fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hard to be a King.
Step into the role of a gold prospector during the Alaskan gold rush and build your own empire from scratch. Mine resources, refine different forms of gold, and upgrade your tools to increase efficiency. Explore diverse mines, survive the harsh climate, and complete engaging story and side quests!
Grandiose
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Ranked #4 for Hard to be a King fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Hard to be a King.
Grandiose is a calming and creative base builder game full of botany, building and strategy. Land on the island that will become your domain in a universe soon to be borrowed from the ingenious and creative abilities of your mind.
Night of the Dead
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Ranked #5 for Hard to be a King fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hard to be a King.
'Night of the Dead' is an open-world game that combines elements of exploration, tower defense, survival, and crafting. Traverse a world dominated by zombies while collecting various resources and powerful equipment. Build a fortress to survive the hordes of zombies that swarm every night!
Eden Island
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Ranked #6 for Hard to be a King fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hard to be a King.
Eden Island is a beautiful survival game. As a survivor, you will explore and survive on a realistic tropical island, craft weapons against beasts, farm and hunt, build your own home.
Click Mage
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Ranked #7 for Hard to be a King fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hard to be a King.
Click Mage is a unique 2D resource gatherer and building game. Mine and process resources, upgrade your clicking power and construct buildings on an idyllic island with beautiful pixel art graphics.
Stranded: Alien Dawn
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Ranked #8 for Hard to be a King fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Hard to be a King.
Brave a new world in Stranded: Alien Dawn, a planet survival sim placing the fate of a small marooned group in your hands. Forge your story through compelling and immersive strategic gameplay as you make vital decisions to protect your survivors.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Hard to be a King at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~86% under Hard to be a King on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hard to be a King.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~57% under Hard to be a King on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hard to be a King.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
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Priced ~46% under Hard to be a King on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hard to be a King.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
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Priced ~72% under Hard to be a King on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hard to be a King.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~79% under Hard to be a King on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hard to be a King.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
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Priced ~57% under Hard to be a King on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hard to be a King.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
A Short Hike
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Priced ~43% under Hard to be a King on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hard to be a King.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
Super Hexagon
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Priced ~57% under Hard to be a King on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hard to be a King.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hard to be a King.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hard to be a King.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hard to be a King.
The Fairytale Curse was only the beginning...
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hard to be a King.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Hard to be a King.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Outpath: First Journey
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hard to be a King.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Hard to be a King.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Hard to be a King.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
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Frequently asked about Hard to be a King
- How much does Hard to be a King cost?
- Hard to be a King is listed on Steam at 6.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Hard to be a King?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hard to be a King are Fallen Angel: Hell Survival, Orebound, Alaska Gold Fever.
- Who developed Hard to be a King?
- Hard to be a King was developed by tyx.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Hard to be a King.
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